Re: [pkgsel] Add xresprobe, discover and laptop detect for hw detection

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:48:15AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:37:46AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > xresprobe is a very nice tool, it will investigate the connected monitor, and
> > allow you to set the resolutions supported by the monitor. We may consider
> > using it already in g-i, since it would allow to set the framebuffer size or
> > something, but i am not sure how this can be done easily.
> > 
> > currently xresprobe doesn't really support multi-headed setups though, but it
> > would be nice to have this solved for etch.
> 
> Um, neither does xserver-xorg.{config,postinst,templates}.  So there's
> not much point until those get fixed.  I've been meaning to do it, but
> never got around to it.  (Don't count on me doing it, seriously.)

I may do it on the purely xresprobe level, as time permits. not sure if i want
to handle the x scripts though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther